John Keats' poem "Sonnet to Sleep" reveals a speaker who seems to be appealing to sleep, but the language of the poem shows the sonnet to be a metaphor for death. Therefore, the speaker is making an appeal to death to "seal the hushed casket of his soul" (Keats 1819, 1).
The sonnet begins with what appears to be an appeal to sleep but is actually an appeal to death. The speaker calls out to the "O Soft embalmer of the still midnight!" (Keats 1819, 1). Keats' speaker asks this "
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